Let be the circumcircle of a triangle , and let and be two points different from the vertices on the sides and , respectively. Let be the second point where intersects the bisector of the angle , and let and be the second points where intersects the lines and , respectively. Let and be the second points of intersection of the line and the circumcircles of the triangles and , respectively. Show that the lines and the tangent line to through are concurrent.
Solution
Since , are collinear. Then implies that . Similarly, , and consequently, and .
Let be tangent line through to the circumcircle of , and let and be the points where intersects the lines and , respectively. Also let be the point of intersection of and .
We have , , and . From these we conclude that and then where we used the law of sines in the triangle and the fact that is the angle bisector of the triangle .
Substituting the last two ratios from above we obtain
Applying Menelaus' Theorem for the triangle we conclude that the points are collinear.

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